September is National Childhood Injury Prevention Month

Through the month of September, Mom’s Medicine Chest will be posting information on how to help prevent some common childhood injuries.

Week 1-Choking/Suffocation
Week 2-Drowning
Week 3-Falls/Household burns
Week 4-Poison Prevention

On average, 12,175 children 0 to 19 years of age died each year in the United States from an unintentional injury.
Unintentional injuries—such as those caused by burns, drowning, falls, poisoning and road traffic—are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children in the United States. Each year, among those 0 to 19 years of age, more than 9.2 million are treated in emergency departments for nonfatal injuries.
Source: http://www.cdc.gov/safechild/Child_Injury_Data.html